pen
/pɛn/ noun A1- An enclosure (enclosed area) used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle. · There are two steers in the third pen.
- A penitentiary, i.e. a state or federal prison for convicted felons. · They caught him with a stolen horse, and he wound up in the pen again.
- The bullpen. · Two righties are up in the pen.
Plural pens
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Now I remember quite well, that on the table round which they were sitting were pens, ink, and paper.
“Stop a bit,” said the abbé, taking up what he called his pen, and, after dipping it into the ink, he wrote on a piece of prepared linen, with his left hand, the first two or three words of the accusation.
“Now let me behold the curious pens with which you have written your work.”
“Look!” said Faria, showing to the young man a slender stick about six inches long, and much resembling the size of the handle of a fine painting-brush, to the end of which was tied, by a piece of thread, one of those cartilages of which the abbé had before spoken to Dantès; it was pointed, and divided at the nib like an ordinary pen.
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